50 Ways to Increase Your Confidence in Less Than 10 Minutes

Doesn’t that sounds nice? Increasing confidence in less than 10 minutes.

It really is that easy.
Building confidence doesn’t need to be a big shebang, it really can be as simple as consistent and helpful daily habits that change the way you view yourself and the world around you.
Confidence is and always will be linked to how closely you trust yourself.

My definition of confidence is simply ‘trust in yourself to be ok’.
I trust myself to be ok getting on stage and talking.
I trust myself to be ok asking my boss for a pay rise.
I trust myself to be ok taking the plunge and quitting my full time job to start a business.

Whatever it is you’re looking to achieve confidence for, it all comes down to how much you can have trust in yourself.

So, how do you build more trust in yourself? This is where the easy part comes in. Building trust in yourself is literally as simple as following through with the things you say you’re going to do.

What do I mean specifically? I mean following through with your word. When the voice in your head says you’re going to do something - actually do it.

For example:
”I’m going to get up early and go to the gym 3 times this week.”
”I’m going to write that report before I go home today.”
”I’m going to email that company that I’ve been looking for a job with.”

When you actually do the thing you say you’re going to do, it builds trust with your unconscious mind. You’re literally wiring the brain to have faith that you’ll follow through with what you say you’re going to do. This increases your sense of certainty when it comes to doing the bigger tasks. The more often you can follow through with the small things, the more likely you’ll be at succeeding in the bigger things. It creates a proof-point in your mind that you’re actually reliable. The brain can trust you when push comes to shove.

Excuse me Jade, ‘how does this actually build my confidence though?’ I hear your ask!

Well, as I mentioned at the beginning of this article - confidence is trust in yourself to be ok - so when you’ve developed a great selection of proof points (by doing the things you say you’re going to do - examples found in this free ebook), your mind is literally cementing it’s belief in itself to be ok.
The key point worth mentioning here is that the ‘little things’ should regularly grow to start expanding the comfort zone further. Maybe instead of sending an email to that potential employer, you call their office instead. Push yourself a tiny bit further then you usually would. The more often you can do the small little things, and still be ok, the more your body becomes safe in itself. It’s about expanding the comfort zone regularly.

This helps to reduce the bodies innate reaction to stress or fear, going into the fight or flight response. The more you can have proof points that you follow through with what you say you’re going to do, and survive while doing it, staying calm and relaxed, the more your body can be comfortable in more intense scenarios. These are the kind of scenarios where people would usually assume you need confidence.

Think of it like this:

You have a friend, they keep saying they’re going to do something for you. Maybe they keep saying ‘I’ll have you over for dinner’ or potentially they say ‘I’m going to bring this book around for you to borrow’. You keep getting your hopes up. ‘Yes, dinner will be lovely’ you think. Or maybe you’ve been hanging out to read to the book. Your friend on the other hand doesn’t follow through. They keep letting you down. They keep saying they’re going to do something and don’t do it. Dinner keeps getting cancelled, or the book gets forgotten. You begin to lose trust. ‘How can you actually trust this person to follow through with their word, they never do what they say they’re going to’.

IT’S THE SAME WITH YOUR MIND!

You do this to yourself daily when you don’t follow through with the small things you say you’re going to do. You’re basically gaslighting yourself. Your mind begins to lose trust in your ability to follow through with things. It begins to lack confidence in itself.

This is why small habit development, and doing the things you say you’re going to do are so powerful. The more you do this, the more your mind trusts you. The more it can trust you with the small things, the more its willing to give you leniency and extend trust into the bigger things. This is how confidence is developed.

So are you ready to start doing small things daily to have a huge positive impact on your confidence?

Download the free e-book now and start today!

I’d love to hear how you go with it, so please send me an email updating on how your first week goes!